History buffs

[sonicyouth]

ah right, I drove back from Pembrokeshire on the A465, very scenic

[wiggy]

Lived in Pontypridd for 3 years while at the Polytechnic of Wales, and got my ankle broken in a friendly match at Aberdare.

[ReadingRed]

Aber is Welsh(gaelic) for river by the way....

Sorry to be pedantic but Afon is river - Aber usually means a river mouth or confluence

[leefer]

I stand corrected

[kerry red]

I stand corrected

Said the man in orthopaedic shoes

[Reg Smeeton]

I stand corrected

While we're doing pedantry...Welsh isn't a gaelic language. It's what's known as a brythonic celtic language, similar to Breton and Cornish.  Gaelic or goidetic languages are Scottish, Irish and Manx. That's all, until some cunt comes along and picks holes in that.

[leefer]

While we're doing pedantry...Welsh isn't a gaelic language. It's what's known as a brythonic celtic language, similar to Breton and Cornish.  Gaelic or goidetic languages are Scottish, Irish and Manx. That's all, until some cunt comes along and picks holes in that.

 

[Honkytonk]

Continuing the Welsh Language theme, Caer is 'castle' or 'fort'. So Cardiff is 'Caerdydd', which is 'Castle on the Taff'.

I honestly find the way places are named fascinating. I'm a proponent of everyone throughout history having a similar sense of humour/laziness/desire to be remembered- so towns being named after great leaders, or ways of saying 'the church on the hill next to the river' etc. that have, through the ages, slowly combined into one word because people are lazy feckers and don't want to expend 10 syallbles when 3 or 4 would do.

[sonicyouth]

There are at least a couple on of places in Norway simply called Å.

[mystical_goat]

There are at least a couple on of places in Norway simply called Å.

How do you pronounce that?

[Ardiles]

How do you pronounce that?

I think the nearest you'd get in English is something like 'or'.  I went to one of those places, which was the very last place at the end of the Lofoten Island chain.  If there's a more remote place in Europe, I'd like to hear where
  Really did feel like the end of the earth...which is very apt because the reason they named it that way is that 'A' (with the circle thing over it) is officially the last letter of the Norwegian alphabet.  Stayed in a rorbuer.  No description I could give would do it justice.  You'd have to look it up.

[sonicyouth]

as Ardiles said, it's close to 'or' but with a soft r sound.

the place name comes from old Norse for small river or stream.

[Coca Fola]

There are at least a couple on of places in Norway simply called Å.

My Norwegian mate told me that I pronounced Norwegian words in a Finnish accent. Should I be happy with that?

[Coca Fola]

Fitte is a great word.

[sonicyouth]

My Norwegian mate told me that I pronounced Norwegian words in a Finnish accent. Should I be happy with that?

Finnish is a very different language to any of the three Scandinavian languages, so not sure what he means.

Fitte is a word you never hear, much more taboo than cunt.